Things I'd rather be tweeting about instead. A thread. x.com/72trailsofsmoke/status…

Top ten responses so far from Labour MPs: —Antonia Bance: “Head in hands” —Ian Byrne: “Grim” —Ashley Dalton: “Very sad…deeply flawed and unsafe” —Florence Eshalomi: “Where to even start’” —Allison Gardner: “An insult to parliament that this bill has been brought back” —Rupa Huq: “Last thing we need” —Adam Jogee: “Insane stuff” —Emma Lewell: “Absolutely dismayed… A deeply flawed and dangerous bill” —David Smith: “Very sad news indeed… I can’t think of a more divisive issue” —Kirsteen Sullivan: “I cannot believe we are back here again. With no humility about the concerns raised previously”

I wonder if they've heard of Blu-ray.

That statement in full:

Emily Thornberry at the Privy Council.

This is the difference Musk has made to my life. Before Musk took over X women were being silenced by the people who ran Twitter. Banned for stating men cannot become women. If not for Musk I doubt the Supreme Court ruling would have happened. The amount of woman hating abuse from trans activists has stayed about the same and most of us are completely immune to it . I suggest you toughen up , continue to make your arguments and block the unwanted comments. That's what sensible people do.

Alright Tommy don't get carried away she's a hero and everything but Braveheart is still a total knob.

Really disappointed with The Stig right now to be perfectly honest.

Pride, the old proverb warns, comes before a fall. And so it has proved. You can measure the fall precisely. Among Britain's largest corporations, social media posts mentioning Pride have collapsed by ninety-two per cent in two years. Manchester Pride, forty years old, went into liquidation owing creditors three million pounds. Reform councils in Durham, Gateshead and Staffordshire have cut the grants and hauled down the flags. The sponsors who once queued to wear the rainbow are walking away, and the names on the departure list read like a stock index. The easy story is that Britain is turning against gay people. The polling says otherwise. Only seven per cent of Britons hold a negative view of gay and lesbian people. The right to love your own sex, to marry, to live openly, has never been more widely accepted. That war is over. It was won. What the public has turned against is what Pride became while nobody was watching. Capital rented the flag and turned a riot into a retail opportunity. And behind the corporate floats came something worse: an ideology that brands same-sex attraction itself a heresy, that saw lesbians removed from a gay rights parade by police "for their own safety," and that watched eight Darlington nurses dragged through a tribunal for wanting a female changing room while their own union posted clenched fists against them. In 1984, Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners stood on street corners with collecting buckets for the coalfields, and the miners repaid the debt by carrying gay rights into the heart of the labour movement. That was solidarity of the old kind: it cost something, and it came with no sponsorship deal attached. Compare it with the unions of 2026, who found twenty-five thousand pounds for a Pride float and called women bigots for wanting to change in private. That is not solidarity. That is capture. So let us be clear about what is dying and what is not. Rainbow capitalism is dying, good riddance. The ideology that recast same-sex attraction as a heresy and women's rights as an obstacle deserves to die with it. What cannot die, because it was never for sale, is the thing underneath: people standing with people, the right to your own body and your own desire, and the solidarity that makes the demand stick. They built a movement so a man could love a man and a woman could love a woman. Then they called that love a heresy and rented the flag to any corporate taker. Pride comes before a fall. But the cause beneath it, love without shame, truth without fear, solidarity without sale, remains. Read the full article: labourheartlands.com/pride-a… #Pride #womensrightsmatter

Richard, stupid as he is, is not actually a useful idiot. He knows full well he's lying, which is the reason why he won't point to anything in: 1. The Oslo Accords 2. The San Remo Agreement 3. Uti possidetis juris 4. Article 80 of the UN Charter 5. Or anything else to explain his point. He won't point to these or anything else to explain his point, because the cognitive jihad requires him not to do that.

I’m not going to compare him to other racists but I do have to ask, why are so many people pretending Lineker doesn’t have an unhealthy interest in Jews? Gift link below 👇🏼

This late Autumn weather is really getting me down.

Thank you @LordIanAustin for saying what needed to be said a long time ago. This obsession with Jews and Israel has emboldened the Islamists and has been destroying the UK & Europe. What has Israel done to deserve this hostility?

A proper debate would involve actually listening to all sides, rather than picking one while waving away all opinions to the contrary with vacuous platitudes. Not turning off replies would be a start.

Satire aside, there's a reason public waste bins are like this, there's a reason they're no longer made of cast iron. That's because the IRA, led in part by @GerryAdamsSF, planted bombs inside such bins in Warrington town centre so that they could murder children. For the cause.

It's great when the people who claim no one would EVER claim to be a different sex to gain access to women's spaces would DEFINITELY claim to be a different sex to gain access to women's spaces if we don't let them have access to women's spaces. Not sending their best are they?

A Charity Whose Trustees Read Like a Labour Honours List Is Trying to Win a By-Election. Hope Not Hate is a registered charitable trust. Charities operating in the political arena are bound by a simple and unambiguous rule. They must stress their independence. They must not encourage support for any particular party or candidate. They must not give funding to political parties or politicians. These are not guidelines. They are legal obligations enforced by the Charity Commission. Nigel Farage has written to the Charity Commission citing what he describes as a clear breach of those obligations in the Makerfield by-election constituency ahead of the June 18th poll. The facts documented in his letter are precise. Hope Not Hate sent leaflets to addresses in Makerfield encouraging voters to join the local fightback against Reform and scan a QR code to participate. The leaflet was promoted by Nick Lowles on behalf of Hope Not Hate Limited, a private company. That private company received £787,858 in grants from Hope Unlimited Charitable Trust in 2024, representing almost the entirety of the charitable trust's expenditure for the year. The action apparently changed nothing. The trustees of Hope Unlimited Charitable Trust and the directors and former directors of Hope Not Hate Limited include Frances O'Grady, former TUC General Secretary and Labour Peer. Gurinder Josan CBE, current Chair of HUCT and Labour MP. Jon Cruddas, former Labour MP. Alison Phillips, Chief Executive of LabourTogether, a Labour supporting think tank. Ruth Lauren Anderson, Labour Peer. Anna Turley, former Labour MP and Chair of the Labour Party. A charitable trust whose trustees are overwhelmingly current or former Labour politicians is funding a private company to distribute leaflets in a by-election constituency explicitly targeting Reform and backing the Labour candidate. The Charity Commission's own guidance states that a charity must steer clear of explicitly comparing its views with those of political parties or candidates taking part in an election. The leaflet's footer, to join the local fightback against Reform, does precisely that. This is not the first time the Charity Commission has been required to intervene. It opened a compliance case in July 2025 and concluded it in January 2026, declaring itself satisfied that the charity had taken sufficient steps to distinguish itself from Hope Not Hate Limited. The case was closed. Within months the same funding arrangement appears to have resumed with charitable funds flowing into electoral leaflets in a specific by-election constituency. The Commission closed the case. The behaviour apparently continued. The Makerfield by-election is the vehicle through which Andy Burnham intends to return to Westminster and challenge for the Labour leadership. Reform took every council seat in the area at the May local elections with 46.2 percent of the vote. The stakes could not be higher. And a charity whose trustees read like a Labour Party honours list is spending charitable funds to help deliver the result. The Charity Commission has 22 days to act before the votes are cast on June 18th. It has already investigated this arrangement once and the funding continued unchanged. Charitable money is being spent to influence a by-election that could determine who leads the country. The regulator that failed to stop it in January faces a simple question. Will it act before the result or after it no longer matters? "The leaflet was promoted by Nick Lowles on behalf of Hope Not Hate Limited, a private company."

And should you, @NickCohen4, be interested in hearing from a former Labor MK, a long-time peace activist, rather than pretending this is all a Likud thing, you could do a lot worse than start with this video with @EinatWilf.

Bought a ticket for a Jewish cultural festival event and because it's Birmingham in 2026 the organisers can't risk announcing the location.

There's enough material here to keep you entertained for hours.